When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish by Christen Noel Kauffman

When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish

by Christen Noel Kauffman

(published in Whale Road Review, 2016, Issue 16)

I think of the way your legs sprawl across my lap, your bellybutton a map of how once I

split myself in two. I remember the fibrous web of a peeled orange and how you asked me

to tell you the color of sound. How I feel the finality of moving spheres, the sun burning out

on the crevice of your neck. I won’t see the last time your ribcage expands into drum or

that the sky is a memo...